The Human Heart Likes A Little Disorder

It's Stupid To Claim That One Human Being Is Special, Or Picked Out By God, When In Fact There Are Hundreds Of Millions Of Human Beings In The World, And God Knows How Many Millions Of People Long Dead Who Have Been Lost To History, All Of Whom Were Probably Special To Someone.

People Taking Photographs Of Their Meals Are Not Critics; They Are From The United States.

No Man Is A Man Until He Has Been A Soldier.

In Deference To Such Spectacular Carnage It Is Perhaps Perverse To Dwell Upon One Person's Death, But We Are Creatures So Constituted That The Passing Of One Friend Or One Acquaintance Has A Profounder Effect That That Of 100,000 Strangers. If There Is Any Metaphorical Truth In The Jewish Proverb That He Who Saves One Life Saves The Whole World, Then There Is Equal Metaphorical Truth In The Proposition That When One Person Dies, The Whole World Dies With Them.

The De Bernières Were Very Military. I Broke The Military Tradition But I Was Terribly Proud Of My Father Being A Soldier.